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lightbox plugins
261 plugins in the directory carry the lightbox tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
261
plugins
1,363,560+
combined reach
82
released in 90 days
50%
quiet 18 months+
4
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Sep 2026 | Video Lightbox for YouTube/Vimeo | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Easy Justified Gallery – Photo Gallery Block with Lightbox | 10+ | changed hands |
| 18 Aug 2026 | Easy Justified Gallery – Photo Gallery Block with Lightbox | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 06 Aug 2026 | Pixi Image Gallery | 70+ | changed hands |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements Add 50+ shortcodes with live preview for tabs, accordions, buttons, FAQs, sliders and boxes. Works in Block Editor and Classic Editor. | 400,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| Firelight Lightbox Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups. | 200,000+ | 4.8★ | 2 months ago |
| Envira Gallery – Image Photo Gallery, Albums, Video Gallery, Slideshows & More The fastest drag & drop photo gallery plugin. Create stunning image galleries, albums, video galleries & lightbox displays in minutes — no coding! | 100,000+ | 4.7★ | 20 days ago |
| Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox A responsive image lightbox for WordPress galleries, WordPress attachments & FooGallery | 100,000+ | 3.9★ | 11 days ago |
| Responsive Lightbox & Gallery The most popular lightbox plugin and responsive gallery builder for WordPress. | 100,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 months ago |
| Simple Lightbox The highly customizable lightbox for WordPress | 100,000+ | 4.3★ | 6 months ago |
| SimpLy Gallery Create responsive photo, image, video, and mixed media galleries for WordPress with gallery blocks, albums, sliders, and a built-in lightbox. | 40,000+ | 4.8★ | 1 month ago |
| LightPress Lightbox Simple, lightweight lightbox plugin for WordPress. Formerly the WP JQuery Lightbox. | 40,000+ | 4.6★ | 5 months ago |
| FancyBox for WordPress Seamlessly integrates FancyBox lightbox into your WordPress blog: Upload, activate, and you're done. Additional configuration optional. | 30,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Advanced Responsive Video Embedder for Rumble, Odysee, YouTube, Vimeo, Kick … Level up your basic video embeds! Advanced features, privacy. Use URLs, Shortcodes or Blocks to customize videos to your needs. | 20,000+ | 4.2★ | 1 month ago |
| Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block Adds a simple & lightweight Lightbox to the standard WordPress Gallery & Image Block. No lock in and no dependencies. | 20,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Lightbox with PhotoSwipe Integration of PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com) for WordPress. | 20,000+ | 4.9★ | 8 days ago |
| WP Lightbox 2 WP Lightbox 2 adds stunning lightbox effects to images and galleries on your WordPress site. | 20,000+ | 4.4★ | 7 months ago |
| ARI Fancy Lightbox – Popup for WordPress Lightbox for WordPress with social and viral features. Show photos, gallery, PDF, videos, WooCommerce images, inline content, Google Maps links. | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 11 months ago |
| Meow Lightbox The elegant lightbox built for photographers. Fast, responsive, and displays your photos beautifully with EXIF data and maps. You'll love it! 💕 | 10,000+ | 4.9★ | 3 days ago |
| Modal Window – create popup modal window WordPress popup plugin for easily creating a popup and modal window with any kind of content and settings. | 10,000+ | 3.8★ | 13 days ago |
| Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others Galleries on steroids! A stylish lightbox & gallery plugin for WP, Flickr, SmugMug and Zenfolio photos and videos. | 10,000+ | 4.8★ | 17 days ago |
| Pop-up Pop-up Popups | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 10 days ago |
| Responsive Lightbox This plugin offers a nice and elegant way to add Lightbox functionality for images, html content and media on your webpages. | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 13 months ago |
| Video Popup – Video Lightbox for YouTube, Vimeo & MP4 Video Popup plugin lets you create unlimited, responsive Video Lightbox and Popup for YouTube, Vimeo, MP4 & WebM on click or page load. | 10,000+ | 4.5★ | 16 days ago |
| WP Photo Album Plus This plugin is more than just a photo album plugin, it is a complete, highly customizable multimedia cms and display system. | 10,000+ | 4.7★ | 2 days ago |
| Themify Popup Turn visitors into subscribers and increase sale conversions! Use Popup to show newsletter forms, promotions, or lightbox content. | 8,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| WP Colorbox View image, video (YouTube, Vimeo), page, inline HTML, custom content in lightbox. Add jQuery Colorbox lightbox effect to your WordPress site. | 5,000+ | 4.3★ | 13 months ago |
| Gallery Carousel Without JetPack Transform your standard galleries into an immersive full-screen experience without requiring you to connect to WordPress.com | 4,000+ | 3.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| FancyBox Enables fancybox on all image links including BMP, GIF, JPG, JPEG, and PNG links. | 4,000+ | 2.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Album Gallery for Flickr Display Flickr albums on WordPress with lightbox preview and shortcode integration. Refactored for standard repository compliance. | 4,000+ | 3.9★ | 28 days ago |
| jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries Makes the native WordPress galleries use a lightbox script called ColorBox to display the fullsize images. | 4,000+ | 4.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Lightbox Images for Divi Enhanced Extends Divi's native lightbox effect to all auto-linked images. Requires Divi Theme or Divi Builder Plugin. Compatible with Divi 4.10+ and Divi 5. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 days ago |
| Album Gallery for Photo & Video An easy-to-use album gallery for Photo & Video display. Works seamlessly with Gutenberg Blocks and Elementor Page Builder. | 4,000+ | 4.8★ | 18 days ago |
| All In One Lightbox – show any media in beautiful popups Responsive lightbox popups and galleries for images, audio, video, PDFs, iframes, and custom content – built right into the WordPress block editor. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 days ago |
| Lightbox slider – Responsive Lightbox Gallery Lightbox slider plugin is allow users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows and Gallery view with Responsive grid layout. | 3,000+ | 4.7★ | 3 months ago |
| WP-Slimbox2 Plugin A WordPress implementation of the Slimbox2 javascript. | 3,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Image Gallery Block – Showcase Photos in Stunning Responsive Grids Responsive image gallery block for Gutenberg – photo galleries with grid & Polaroid layouts, albums, lightbox popups, and Pro Masonry & 3D layouts. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 days ago |
| Cleaner Gallery A cleaner WordPress [gallery] that integrates with multiple Lightbox-type scripts. | 2,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Gallery Block by Galleryberg: Lightbox with Tiles, Masonry, Square, & Justified Layouts A powerful and customizable gallery block for WordPress. | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 19 days ago |
| Light Modal Block Lightweight, customizable modal block for the WordPress block editor | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| PopupAlly PopupAlly allows you to create advanced popup signup forms in under 5 minutes without dealing with messy code. | 2,000+ | 4.1★ | 3 months ago |
| PrettyPhoto – Simple Lightbox Plugin An easy to use lightbox/thickbox clone for WordPress. Prettyphoto Elementor Addon supports | 2,000+ | 2.8★ | 12 months ago |
| WP Featherlight Disabled The most lightweight WordPress lightbox plugin...and the featherlight CSS/JS (only 7kb) is automatically disabled unless you manually enable within ea … | 2,000+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| blueimp lightbox Official blueimp Gallery lightbox for Wordpress. | 1,000+ | 4.4★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Image Ticker & Logo Slider – Continuous Auto-Scroll Carousel with Lightbox An auto-scrolling image ticker & logo slider for WordPress with a responsive lightbox — dependency-free Modern engine (no jQuery), plus a native G … | 1,000+ | 3.6★ | 5 days ago |
| Easy Lightbox – Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox for WordPress Easy Lightbox is an Image, Gallery and Video Lightbox plugin for WordPress. This plugin will enable a smooth Lightbox in your WordPress website. | 1,000+ | 3.8★ | 11 months ago |
| Easy Photo Album Easy Photo Album makes it easy for you to create and manage photo albums. | 1,000+ | 4.7★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Gutenberg Gallery Blocks Lightbox This plugin transforms the Gutenberg gallery block into a lightbox with previous/next navigation. It was built to offer those who wish to present a se … | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 16 months ago |
| Gutena Video Lightbox Gutena Video Lightbox is a WordPress Block that allows you to add a video in a popup window that goes over the website content. | 1,000+ | — | 9 months ago |
| jQuery Lightbox Used to add the lightbox effect to images on your WordPress blog :) | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Image and Video Lightbox, Image PopUp Image and Video Lightbox is an high customizable and responsive plugin for displaying images and videos in popup. | 1,000+ | 3.3★ | 7 months ago |
| Shutter Reloaded Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller (10KB) and faster. | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Colorbox Description: Adds a very simple Colorbox to your linked images. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Simple Image Popup A simple way to show a popup image on your website with various enhancements including conditional display and accessibility features. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 20 months ago · quiet |
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